I held off from creating this page for a long, long time. But over that time, I came to learn there are plenty of nice and interesting trails around Connecticut that are not managed by the CFPA. Of course, there are plenty of trails around here that aren’t worth my time to write about – or yours to read about. I’ll make those determinations as this section develops.

I won’t be as hardcore about being a completist with much of the list below, as there’s really just no need to be. There are certainly some trails and trail networks though that certainly DO deserve my full, obsessive attention. These are the ones that recognize completers with official certificates, patches, hats or whatever. You better believe I’ll be completing them.

Also, if the Land Trust or whatever publishes a top-notch trail guide, I’ll try to do them justice by completing those trails as well.

These will include the many trails on various Land Trust lands, Nature Conservancy land, town parks, Audubon tracts and whatever else is out there. There are so many trails that this page is pretty much impossible to have a comprehensive listing, but what the heck, that’s what I strive to do.

Shade Swamp Sanctuary Trails, Farmington

Feel free to let me know about others I may not have listed here. There is a bunch of overlapping stuff here with State parks and other organization’s lands and stuff. Eh, we’ll figure it out together.

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There are 90 or so Land Trusts

in the state. Maybe 80 of them have accessible hiking trails. Here they are – Land Trust Trails

or the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority? Well, they have a ton of land with a ton of trails. The RWA trails require an access permit and the SCRCOG trails encompass some land trust trails and stuff. It’s all very confusing, but I hope to sort it out here.